So I recently just became obsessed with this series a few weeks ago. In fact, in about two weeks, I watched the whole series...twice! I REGRET NOTHING! And I am now totally in love with Matthew Knight! Like I'm watching pretty much everything he's in. It's kinda sad. Anyway, immediately, I knew I wanted to write a fanfiction for this. I am a total Etharah fan, but unfortunately, I didn't add as many Etharah moments as I would've liked. But there are a lot of moments with Benny and the OC, so that's okay, right?

Love all my faithful followers! Enjoy!

Ethan Morgan and Benny Weir were the best of friends…and they were also total nerds. In fact, they had a reputation for it. But that didn't stop them from crushing on the two popular girls: Sarah Fox and Erica Jones, respectively.

Well, Ethan crushed on Sarah, but Benny kind of hopped from girl to girl.

"I'm telling ya, E, I am a genius," Benny said leaning against the locker next to Ethan's.

"What spell did you do this time? Is it gonna hurt us again?"

"Mess up one love potion and you never hear the end of it," Benny sighed. "No, even better. I pulled a few strings and bought this bad boy!"

Benny held up a new video game that Ethan snatched from his hands as soon as he saw the cover. "You got the new Galactitac video game?"

"200 levels of pure awesomeness! I'm totally coming over tonight to play it!"

Ethan and Benny watched a girl who was presumably their age, if a not a few months younger, walk past them. She was wearing a dark, thin hoodie, and the hood was pulled up, blocking her face. Her hands were shoved in her front pockets, and it was clear she didn't like attention drawn to herself. She looked up at the two boys and they caught sight of her face for just a second.

And immediately, they were drawn to her. Her eyes were like beautiful blue little orbs. Her deep brown hair had various golden streaks throughout, no doubt drenched by the sun's golden light. It fell down along her face in perfect waves a good length beneath her shoulder.

She quickly turned away once she met their eyes.

"Whoa…" Benny said. "She. Is. Hot."

"Yeah…" Ethan said, forgetting all about his crush on Sarah.

They watched as she walked down the hallway, head down, avoiding all looks. Suddenly, she was pushed up against the wall by one of the popular girls and her little posse. They had her cornered and she looked away from them. It seemed like she was used to it, but was still quite unhappy about her predicament.

"Going to class, little freak?" the popular girl laughed.

The girl in the hoodie just looked away and didn't respond. Ethan could've sworn he saw tears forming, but he was too far away from her to be sure.

The popular girl put her arm on the wall, forbidding the other girl from leaving. "I don't think so. I'm not done with you yet."

"Yes, you are," Ethan said. He had no idea where this was coming from. He was not one to go into confrontation or draw any attention to himself whatsoever. But he couldn't stand this poor, beautiful girl to be treated like this.

At the sound of his voice, the girl's head whipped to the side, surprised someone was standing up for her.

"Um, excuse me, who are you?" the popular girl smirked. "Get lost, geek."

"Just leave her alone."

"Or what?"

Suddenly, the popular girl's legs literally gave out underneath her and she fell right on the floor. Ethan turned to look at Benny, who was aimlessly looking around, pretending to not have had anything to do with her fall, though Ethan knew he had just cast one of his spells.

The popular girl's posse was helping her up and the hooded girl was now free.

"Hey," Ethan said quietly as he began to walk up to her.

The girl pulled her hood over her face and scrambled away faster than he thought was possible.

"Hey, wait!" Ethan called. He saw her turn her head for a brief second, but she kept walking quickly away from him.

Benny came up behind him and clapped his arm around Ethan's shoulders. "Well done, my friend. You even repel the shy girls."

Ethan pushed Benny off as he stared after that beautiful girl.

The girl went home after school and walked into her silent house. She immediately went up to her room and put on her headphones to listen to some music. She went on her computer to check Facebook when tears started forming in her eyes. This had been the millionth time that stupid popular girl had caught her and teased her in the middle of school. She was sick and tired of having to put up with it, but was far too quiet and shy to do anything.

Tears spilled down her face as she recalled the events that happened in the hall. Then, that boy's face filled her mind. The one who said something to the popular girl. He was kinda cute in that geeky kind of way.

With tears stains on her cheeks, she promised herself that tomorrow she would find him, even if it meant actually talking to someone.

"So, you still haven't seen her at all?" Benny asked Ethan at school.

"No, it's like she disappeared," Ethan replied as he shoved some books into his locker.

"Hey, Ethan!"

Ethan turned to find his long-time crush walking up to the two boys. Sarah Fox was absolutely gorgeous and could turn Ethan into a puddle just by standing next to him. Ever since yesterday though, he couldn't get that shy girl out of his mind.

"Word is that you actually spoke out to that head cheerleader yesterday. I'm impressed."

"She was teasing this other girl. Someone had to do something. Benny helped."

"Ah, just a good trip spell, whatever," Benny said as if it was no big deal.

That was when the shy girl came up to him with the dark hoodie on and the hood pulled up once again.

"Hey," Ethan said as he lightly touched her arm.

She looked over at him with slightly wide eyes, more surprised than anything. "You're that guy from yesterday."

"Yeah, that's me," he answered giving a crooked smile.

The girl took her hood off, revealing her full beauty. Her hair was even more beautiful with the hood down and the light shone on her now exposed, perfect skin. "Thanks for that," she said quietly.

"It was nothing."

"Hey, you know, I helped too," Benny said jumping beside Ethan, causing the girl to back away a little.

"I'm Ethan," Ethan introduced.

"I'm Natalia," the girl answered, shoving her hands in her front pockets.

"And I'm Benny, but I also go by 'the man of your dreams.'" Natalia didn't even smile, but kept her face straight. "I'll be over here," Benny said awkwardly.

Natalia looked at Ethan. "It's not every day someone does that for me."

"Um, just glad I could help."

Natalia gave a small smile so quick, Ethan wasn't sure if he imagined it or not. "I have to go." She pulled her hood back over her face and quickly walked away.

Ethan grabbed his food from the lunch line and went to go sit with Benny, Sarah, and Erica when he saw an unmistakable dark hoodie with the hood pulled up.

He went over to the shy girl who was sitting alone at a table.

"Hey, Natalia?" Ethan said. She whipped her head around to face him. "It's okay, it's just me," he smiled, holding his free hand out in front him, showing he meant no harm.

She turned away from him and resumed eating. Ethan set his tray down on the table and sat down next to her. She turned her head once more to look at him.

"My friends and I are eating over there if you wanna join us."

Natalia looked over at the table and saw them all talking and laughing together. "No, thanks," she said quietly. She knew that if she went over there, she would immediately be left out of their conversations. She noticed that the boy's face actually looked kind of…dejected.

"Well, we're there every day if you ever want to come over."

She nodded and turned away from him. He picked his tray up and left. She watched him go, utterly confused. No one had ever talked to her in a long time, much less invited her over. She smiled to herself. She kind of liked this.